The Yellow Fairy Book, The Flying Ship(24), sentence 65

‘If you throw it upon the ground,’ said the man, ‘it will be changed into an army of soldiers.’

Who acts: you · What happens: throw, say, change · To what, where: other, ground, man, army · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Flying Ship(24). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	‘	'	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct
2	If	if	SCONJ	_	4 throw	mark
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 throw	nsubj
4	throw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 said	advcl
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 throw	obj
6	upon	upon	ADP	_	8 ground	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 ground	det
8	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 throw	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 throw	punct
10	’	'	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 man	det
13	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 said	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 changed	punct
15	‘	‘	SCONJ	_	19 changed	mark
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 changed	nsubj
17	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 changed	aux
18	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	19 changed	aux:pass
19	changed	change	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 said	conj
20	into	into	ADP	_	22 army	case
21	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 army	det
22	army	army	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 changed	obl
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 soldiers	case
24	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 army	nmod
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct
26	’	'	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	throw a condition, not said to happen	present	you	other	the ground		vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent it=Theme upon ground=Destination
2	say speech: assert	past		the man			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent man=Topic
3	change	future · passive		other		into a army of soldiers result	vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: subject=Patient into army=Result

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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